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Question 1 :
Secession. Like other cotton-growing and slaveholding states, Texas was thrown into turmoil by the election of Abraham
Lincoln as president of the United States, and by the secession of South Carolina in December 1860. On February 23, 1861,
Texans went to the polls to vote on secession. The results for the state as a whole were 46,153 for and 14,747 against, and
Texas became the seventh state to leave the Union. While support for leaving the Union was strong, there were pockets of Unionist
sentiment. Of the 122 counties casting votes, how many cast majorities against secession?
Eighteen Thirty-five None Ten Five
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2 :
The Invasion of New Mexico. In 1861–62 Texans played a major role in Confederate efforts to expand into New Mexico
Territory. Henry W. Sibley, a West Point graduate, organized a brigade of Texas cavalry and led an invasion into Union-held
Arizona and New Mexico. His forces soon captured Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The climactic battle of the invasion, which forced
the Confederate forces to retreat back to Texas, was fought at
Mesilla Glorieta Pass Valverde Santa Fe Eagle
Pass
Question 3 :
Mexican-American Texans in the War. Secession and the Civil War deeply divided the Mexican Americans of Texas. While some
joined the Federal forces and many remained neutral, at least 2,500 served in the Confederate army. One unit, the 33rd Cavalry
Regiment, operated on the border with Mexico and contained many Mexican American troopers. What member of a prominent border
family commanded this regiment, and was the highest ranking Tejano in the Confederate army?
Adrián J. Vidal Juan
N. Cortina Cristóbal Benavides Santos Benavides José Ángel Navarro
Question 4 :
Prison Camps. In the early years of the Civil War prisoners taken by the two sides were generally exchanged within a short
time. As the war went on exchanges became less frequent, resulting in large numbers of prisoners crowded into unsanitary prisoner
of war camps. This stockade, located near Tyler, Texas, was the largest prison camp west of the Mississippi.
Andersonville Camp
Maxey Camp Ford Fort Concho Camp Travis
Question 5 :
Texas Units. Of all the troops raised in Texas for the Confederate army, only one unit served under Robert E. Lee in his
famed Army of Northern Virginia. This unit was
Waul’s Legion Walker’s Division Gano’s
Brigade Hood’s Texas Brigade Terry’s Texas Rangers
Question 6 :
Texas Leaders. A number of prominent Texans served as generals in the Confederate army during the war. This prominent veteran
of the Texas Republic was mortally wounded while commanding the Southern army at the decisive battle of Shiloh, Tennessee.
John
Bell Hood Albert Sidney Johnston James Longstreet Earl Van Dorn Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
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7 :
Espionage. This Virginia native smuggled notes on Union plans to Confederate officers and served as a courier for generals
Pierre G. T. Beauregard and Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson and their subordinates. Later in life she became an actress, appearing
on the stage in several Texas cities and living in Dallas for a time. This intrepid spy was:
Belle Starr Isabelle
Boyd Susanna Pinckney Calamity Jane Clara Barton
Question 8 :
Guerrilla Warfare. While the outcome of the Civil War was decided on the battlefields, partisan warfare was endemic in border
areas like Missouri and Kansas. Texas provided a safe winter haven for this Southern guerrilla fighter, an Ohio native who
is best known for leading a murderous assault on Union sympathizers at Lawrence, Kansas.
William Clarke Quantrill Jesse
James Cole Younger Bloody Bill Anderson Edmund Kirby Smith
Question 9 :
Unionists. Not all Texans supported the Confederacy. There was strong support for the Union among certain groups, particularly
among German Texans in the Hill Country. In August 1862 a party of Unionists attempting to reach Mexico was intercepted by
Confederate forces and defeated at a skirmish on which river?
the Rio Grande the Sabine the San Gabriel the
Trinity the Nueces
Question 10 :
The End of Slavery. While Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, African Americans in Texas celebrate their
freedom on Juneteenth, so named for June 19, 1865, when the proclamation was read by Union General Gordon Granger as he led
a force of federal troops into Texas. What Texas city was Granger occupying when he read the Emancipation Proclamation?
Austin Dallas Hempstead Galveston Brownsville
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